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Spectral integration in the inferior colliculus of the mustached bat.

Acoustic behaviors including orientation and social communication depend on neural integration of information across the sound spectrum. In many species, spectral integration is performed by combination-sensitive neurons, responding best when…

Specific Vagus Nerve Lesion Have Distinctive Physiologic Mechanisms of Dysphagia.

Swallowing is complex at anatomical, functional, and neurological levels. The connections among these levels are poorly understood, yet they underpin mechanisms of swallowing pathology. The complexity of swallowing physiology means that multiple…

Tags: 2019, Animal model, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Dysphagia, Frontiers in neurology, German Rebecca Z, Gould François D H, Kinematics, Lammers Andrew R, Mayerl Christopher J, NEOMED College of Medicine, NEOMED College of Medicine Postdoc, NEOMED Postdoc Publications, Recurrent laryngeal nerve, Superior laryngeal nerve

Sources of cholinergic input to the inferior colliculus.

We combined retrograde tracing with immunohistochemistry for choline acetyltransferase to identify the source of cholinergic input to the inferior colliculus (IC) in guinea pigs. Injection of a retrograde tracer into one IC labeled cells in many…

Tags: 2009, Acetylcholine/*metabolism, Animals, Choline O-Acetyltransferase/metabolism, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Female, Guinea Pigs, Immunohistochemistry, Inferior Colliculi/*anatomy & histology, Male, Motts S D, NEOMED College of Medicine, Neural Pathways/anatomy & histology/metabolism, Neuroscience, Pedunculopontine Tegmental Nucleus/anatomy & histology/metabolism, Photomicrography, Schofield B R, Tegmentum Mesencephali/*anatomy & histology/*metabolism

Sound transmission in archaic and modern whales: anatomical adaptations for underwater hearing.

The whale ear, initially designed for hearing in air, became adapted for hearing underwater in less than ten million years of evolution. This study describes the evolution of underwater hearing in cetaceans, focusing on changes in sound transmission…

Social vocalizations of big brown bats vary with behavioral context.

Bats are among the most gregarious and vocal mammals, with some species demonstrating a diverse repertoire of syllables under a variety of behavioral contexts. Despite extensive characterization of big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) biosonar signals,…

Tags: *Animal Communication, *Behavior, 2012, Acoustics, Animal, Animals, Chiroptera/*physiology, College of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Electrocardiography, Faure Paul A, Gadziola Marie A, Grimsley Jasmine M S, NEOMED College of Medicine, PloS one, Wenstrup Jeffrey J

Small non-coding RNAome of ageing chondrocytes.

Ageing is a leading risk factor predisposing cartilage to osteoarthritis. However, little research has been conducted on the effect of ageing on the expression of small non-coding RNAs (sncRNAs). RNA from young and old chondrocytes from …

SMALL NON-CODING RNA SIGNATURES IN CARTILAGE AGEING

Tags: 2020, Balaskas P, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Fang Y, Green J A, Haqqi Tariq M, Journal Article, journalArticle, June 2020 Update I, NEOMED College of Medicine, Osteoarthritis and cartilage, Peffers M J, Welting T J

Skeletons of terrestrial cetaceans and the relationship of whales to artiodactyls.

Modern members of the mammalian order Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises) are obligate aquatic swimmers that are highly distinctive in morphology, lacking hair and hind limbs, and having flippers, flukes, and a streamlined body. Eocene fossils…

Tags: *Biological Evolution, *Fossils, 2001, Animals, Bone and Bones/*anatomy & histology, Cetacea/anatomy & histology/*classification, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Hussain S T, Nature, NEOMED College of Medicine, Phylogeny, Roe L J, Skeleton, Thewissen J G, Whales/anatomy & histology/*classification, Williams E M

Shorter heels result in more spring-like behavior of the Achilles tendon in running gaits

Tags: 2020, American journal of physical anthropology, Block Brandon, Capobianco Florian, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Foster Adam D, Journal Article, journalArticle, June 2020 Update I, NEOMED College of Graduate Studies, NEOMED College of Medicine, Peabody John T, Puleo Nicholas A, Vegas Austin, Young Jesse W

Shorter heels are linked with greater elastic energy storage in the Achilles tendon.

Previous research suggests that the moment arm of the m. triceps surae tendon (i.e., Achilles tendon), is positively correlated with the energetic cost of running. This relationship is derived from a model which predicts that shorter ankle moment…

Tags: 2021, ACHILLES tendon, Block B, Capobianco III F, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, ENERGY storage, Foster AD, GEOMETRY, journalArticle, Kinematics, May 2021 List, NEOMED College of Medicine, Peabody J T, Puleo NA, Running, Scientific reports, Vegas A, Young J W

Severe Bone Loss as Part of the Life History Strategy of Bowhead Whales.

The evolution of baleen constituted a major evolutionary change that made it possible for baleen whales to reach enormous body sizes while filter feeding on tiny organisms and migrating over tremendous distances. Bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus)…

Sensory nerves and neuropeptides in uterine cervical ripening.

At the time of parturition (fetal delivery) the uterine cervix must "ripen," becoming soft, pliable, and dilated to accommodate the fetus' delivery. The fundamental processes underlying cervical ripening remain poorly understood. Knowledge that…

Sensory Hairs in the Bowhead Whale, Balaena mysticetus (Cetacea, Mammalia).

We studied the histology and morphometrics of the hairs of bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus). These whales are hairless except for two patches of more than 300 hairs on the rostral tip of the lower lip and chin, the rostral tip of the upper lip,…

Semaphorin-3F, a potential biomarker for lymphatic anomalies and bone cell function

Lymphatic anomalies (LA) are rare conditions characterized by abnormal vascularization of lymphatic vessels (lymphangiogenesis). Gorham‐Stout Disease (GSD) is an aggressive type of LA which invades cortical bone and makes it “disappear”. There is…

Tags: 2020, Akron Children's Hospital, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Faseb Journal, journalArticle, Kelly M, NEOMED College of Medicine, NEOMED College of Medicine Student, NEOMED Student Publications, Safadi F, September 2020 List, Solorzano E

Selectivity and persistent firing responses to social vocalizations in the basolateral amygdala.

This study examined responsiveness to acoustic stimuli among neurons of the basolateral amygdala. While recording from single neurons in awake mustached bats (Pteronotus parnellii), we presented a wide range of acoustic stimuli including tonal,…

Tags: 2012, Acoustic Stimulation, Action Potentials/*physiology, Amygdala/*physiology, Animal/*physiology, Animals, Auditory/physiology, Chiroptera/*physiology, College of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Echolocation/physiology, Evoked Potentials, NEOMED College of Medicine, Neurons/*physiology, Neuroscience, Peterson D C, Vocalization, Wenstrup J J

Seasonal and Ontogenetic Variation in Subcutaneous Adipose Of the Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus).

Cetacean evolution was shaped by an extraordinary land-to-sea transition in which the ancestors of whales became fully aquatic. As part of this transition, these mammals evolved unusually thick blubber which acts as a metabolic reservoir as well as…

Sauce it up: influence of condiment properties on oral processing behavior, bolus formation and sensory perception of solid foods.

Condiments are rarely consumed on their own. Although addition of condiments to carrier foods is known to affect oral processing behavior and sensory perception, an understanding of how different condiment properties impact oral processing behavior…

Tags: 2020, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Fogliano V, Food & function, Franks E, Galindo-Cuspinera V, journalArticle, July 2020 List, NEOMED College of Medicine, Scholten E, Stieger M, van Eck A, Vinyard CJ

Rotation of middle ear ossicles during cetacean development.

Cetacean middle ears are unique among mammals in that they have an elongated tympanic membrane, a greatly reduced manubrium mallei, and an incudal crus longum that is shorter than the crus breve. Elongation of the tympanic membrane and reduction of…

Tags: *Rotation, 2001, Animals, Body Patterning/*physiology, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Dolphins/*embryology/*growth & development/physiology, Ear Ossicles/*embryology/*growth & development/physiology, Hearing/*physiology, Journal of morphology, Kinkel M D, NEOMED College of Medicine, Oelschlager H A, Thewissen J G

Roles of inhibition in creating complex auditory responses in the inferior colliculus: facilitated combination-sensitive neurons.

We studied roles of inhibition on temporally sensitive facilitation in combination-sensitive neurons from the mustached bat's inferior colliculus (IC). In these integrative neurons, excitatory responses to best frequency (BF) tones are enhanced by…

Roles of inhibition in complex auditory responses in the inferior colliculus: inhibited combination-sensitive neurons.

We studied the functional properties and underlying neural mechanisms associated with inhibitory combination-sensitive neurons in the mustached bat's inferior colliculus (IC). In these neurons, the excitatory response to best frequency tones was…

Role of iNOS in osteoarthritis: Pathological and therapeutic aspects.

Accumulating evidence suggests that inflammation has a key role in the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis (OA). Nitric oxide (NO) has been established as one of the major inflammatory mediators in OA and drives many pathological changes during the…

Tags: 2020, Ahmad Nashrah, Ansari Mohammad Y, Chondrocytes, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Haqqi Tariq M, Inflammation, iNOS, iNOS inhibitor, Journal of cellular physiology, NEOMED College of Medicine, NITRIC oxide, Osteoarthritis, Oxidative Stress

Role of inflammation in the aging bones.

Chronic inflammation in aging is characterized by increased inflammatory cytokines, bone loss, decreased adaptation, and defective tissue repair in response to injury. Aging leads to inherent changes in mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) differentiation,…

Role of Desmosomes in the Annual Molting of the External Acoustic Meatus Lining of the Bowhead Whale (Balaena mysticetus): A Preliminary Study

Tags: 2019, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, George J C, Integrative and comparative biology, June 2019 Update, McBurney D M, NEOMED College of Medicine, Rehorek S J, Stimmelmayr R, Suydam R, Thewissen J G M, Zoology

Review and experimental evaluation of the embryonic development and evolutionary history of flipper development and hyperphalangy in dolphins (Cetacea: Mammalia).

Cetaceans are the only mammals to have evolved hyperphalangy, an increase in the number of phalanges beyond the mammalian plesiomorphic condition of three phalanges per digit. In this study, cetaceans were used as a novel model to review previous…

Retrograde axonal tracing with fluorescent markers.

The growth of fluorescence imaging technology and the development of sensitive fluorescent retrograde tracers has provided many new approaches for analyzing neuronal circuits. Fluorescent markers provide unparalleled opportunity for combining axonal…

Tags: *Fluorescent Dyes, 2008, Animals, Axons/*ultrastructure, Current protocols in neuroscience, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Fluorescent Antibody Technique/*methods, Humans, NEOMED College of Medicine, Neural Pathways/*anatomy & histology, Schofield Brett R

Responses to combinations of tones in the nuclei of the lateral lemniscus.

Combination-sensitive neurons integrate specific spectral and temporal elements in biologically important sounds, and they may underlie the analysis of biosonar and social vocalizations. Combination-sensitive neurons are found in the forebrain of a…

Tags: 2001, Acoustic Stimulation/methods, Animals, Auditory Pathways/*physiology, Brain Stem/*physiology, Chiroptera, College of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Electrophysiology, Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO, NEOMED College of Medicine, Neurons/physiology, Portfors C V, Reaction Time/physiology, Wenstrup J J

Residual inhibition: From the putative mechanisms to potential tinnitus treatment.

Neurons in various sensory systems show some level of spontaneous firing in the absence of sensory stimuli. In the auditory system spontaneous firing has been shown at all levels of the auditory pathway from spiral ganglion neurons in the cochlea to…

Tags: 2019, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Galazyuk A V, Hearing research, Kristaponyte I, Longenecker R J, Nelson G L, NEOMED College of Medicine, NEOMED College of Medicine Postdoc, Voytenko S V

Relative growth rates of predator and prey dinosaurs reflect effects of predation.

Hadrosaurs grew rapidly, and quantifying their growth is key to understanding life-history interactions between predators and prey during the Late Cretaceous. In this study, we longitudinally sampled a sequence of lines of arrested growth (LAGs) from…

Tags: 2008, Aging/physiology, Animals, Cooper Lisa Noelle, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Dinosaurs/*growth & development, Fossils, Horner John R, Lee Andrew H, NEOMED College of Medicine, Predatory Behavior/*physiology, Proceedings. Biological sciences, Sexual Maturation, Species Specificity, Taper Mark L

Regulation of glutamatergic and GABAergic neurotransmission in the chick nucleus laminaris: role of N-type calcium channels.

Neurons in the chicken nucleus laminaris (NL), the third order auditory nucleus involved in azimuth sound localization, receive bilaterally segregated (ipsilateral vs contralateral) glutamatergic excitation from the cochlear nucleus magnocellularis…

Reduced Coordination of Hyolaryngeal Elevation and Bolus Movement in a Pig Model of Preterm Infant Swallowing

Preterm infants often have dysphagia. Because reducing lifetime cumulative exposure to radiation in the context of diagnosis and treatment is a continuing goal of all medical fields which use X-ray imaging, efforts exist to reduce reliance on the…

Qualitative skeletal correlates of wing shape in extant birds (Aves: Neoaves).

BACKGROUND: Among living fliers (birds, bats, and insects), birds display relatively high aspect ratios, a dimensionless shape variable that distinguishes long and narrow vs. short and broad wings. Increasing aspect ratio results in a functional…

Tags: *Flight, 2015, Animal, Animal/*anatomy & histology/physiology, Animals, Biological Evolution, Birds/*anatomy & histology/classification/*physiology, BMC evolutionary biology, Bone and Bones/anatomy & histology, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Feathers, Fossils, Hieronymus Tobin L, NEOMED College of Medicine, Phylogeny, Wings

Putting it on display: The musculoskeletal consequences of large gapes in male Old World monkeys

Tags: 2020, American journal of physical anthropology, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Journal Article, journalArticle, June 2020 Update I, NEOMED College of Medicine, Ross Callum F, Taylor Andrea B, Teaford Mark F, Terhune Claire E, Vinyard Christopher J

Projections to the inferior colliculus from layer VI cells of auditory cortex.

A large injection of a retrograde tracer into the inferior colliculus of guinea pigs labeled two bands of cells in the ipsilateral auditory cortex: a dense band of cells in layer V and a second band of cells in layer VI. On the contralateral side,…

Tags: 2009, Amidines/metabolism, Animals, Auditory Cortex/*cytology/*physiology, Cholera Toxin/metabolism, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Efferent Pathways/physiology, Fluorescent Dyes/metabolism, Functional Laterality, Guinea Pigs, Inferior Colliculi/*physiology, NADPH Dehydrogenase/metabolism, NEOMED College of Medicine, Neurons/classification/*physiology, Neuroscience, Nitric Oxide Synthase Type I/metabolism, Schofield B R

Projections of physiologically defined subdivisions of the inferior colliculus in the mustached bat: targets in the medial geniculate body and extrathalamic nuclei.

This study examined the output of the central nucleus of the inferior colliculus to the medial geniculate body and other parts of the nervous system in the mustached bat (Pteronotus parnellii). Small deposits of anterograde tracers (horseradish…

Tags: 1994, Acoustic Stimulation, Animals, Axons/ultrastructure, Brain Mapping, Chiroptera/*physiology, College of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Geniculate Bodies/*physiology, Inferior Colliculi/*physiology, Larue D T, NEOMED College of Medicine, Neural Pathways/*physiology, Synaptic Transmission, Thalamic Nuclei/*physiology, The Journal of comparative neurology, Wenstrup J J, Winer J A

Projections from the dorsal and ventral cochlear nuclei to the medial geniculate body.

Direct projections from the cochlear nucleus (CN) to the medial geniculate body (MG) mediate a high-speed transfer of acoustic information to the auditory thalamus. Anderson etal. (2006) used anterograde tracers to label the projection from the…

Tags: 2014, collateral projections, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, fear conditioning, Foster Nichole L, Frontiers in neuroanatomy, lemniscal pathway, magnocellular pathway, Mellott Jeffrey G, Motts Susan D, multimodal processing, multipolar cells, NEOMED College of Medicine, Schofield Brett R, T-stellate, thalamus

Projections from auditory cortex to midbrain cholinergic neurons that project to the inferior colliculus.

We have shown that auditory cortex projects to cholinergic cells in the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus (PPT) and laterodorsal tegmental nucleus (LDT). PPT and LDT are the sources of cholinergic projections to the inferior colliculus, but it is…

Projections from auditory cortex to cholinergic cells in the midbrain tegmentum of guinea pigs.

Anterograde and retrograde tracing techniques were used to characterize projections from the auditory cortex to the pedunculopontine and laterodorsal tegmental nuclei (PPT and LDT, respectively) in the midbrain tegmentum in guinea pigs. For…

Projections from auditory cortex contact ascending pathways that originate in the superior olive and inferior colliculus.

The superior olivary complex (SOC) and inferior colliculus (IC) are targets of cortical projections as well as sources of major ascending auditory pathways. This study examines whether the cortical projections contact cells in the SOC or IC that…

Tags: 2007, Animals, Auditory Cortex/*cytology, Auditory Pathways/*cytology, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Fluorescence, Guinea Pigs, Hearing research, Inferior Colliculi/*cytology, Microscopy, NEOMED College of Medicine, Olivary Nucleus/*cytology, Peterson Diana Coomes, Schofield Brett R, Staining and Labeling/methods

Projection to the inferior colliculus from the basal nucleus of the amygdala.

This report describes a projection from the amygdala, a forebrain center mediating emotional expression, to the inferior colliculus (IC), the midbrain integration center of the ascending auditory system. In the IC of mustached bats (Pteronotus…

Preterm Birth Impacts the Timing and Excursion of Oropharyngeal Structures during Infant Feeding

Swallowing in mammals requires the precise coordination of multiple oropharyngeal structures, including the palatopharyngeal arch. During a typical swallow, the activity of the palatopharyngeus muscle produces pharyngeal shortening to assist in…

Tags: 2020, Bond LE, Catchpole EA, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Edmonds CE, German RZ, Gould FDH, Integrative Organismal Biology, journalArticle, March 2021 List, Mayerl CJ, NEOMED College of Medicine, NEOMED Postdoc Publications, NEOMED Student Publications, Stricklen BM

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